Originally Posted by Habib
Taskin didn't lose us the game. The batsmen once again were the culprit. We should've reached atleast 240 easily. Don't be naive and blame Taskin please.

i also dont like blaming individual players for their failure or for losing us games. it's actually the people who make me blame them. people here are too much anxious and i am saying "TOO MUCH ANXIOUS" when ever they see a new talent .they open new threads like "official X thread" ,"bring X in the national team " blah blah blah ..plz have a look at tasken's performance today

I wonder why we would think Pakistan couldnt flay Taskin or any other attack at the final overs.. I mean wheh Pakistan had wickets, they would go after any bowlers.. Rather I would blame the captain for not giving better instructions to Taskin. Taskin did take wickets and without seeing how he bowled, we can't really comment whether he was bowling his line/length wrong or Pakistan batsmen were simply lucky or superb in their picking the balls.. It very well could be that the BD captain didnt place the fielders right or there were catch misses.. who knows? But blaming Taskin aint gonna help him.. this experience of getting bashed with. Remember Mashrafees 21 over against ZIM?

I'm optimistic about him...he might not be ready for limited overs cricket just yet...he seems to get hit for sixes way too much, but seems to follow up well but getting wickets after being smacked (3x in this tourney). His ODI strike rate is good but not great. If he is a better Test bowler, than I don't mind letting him cut his teeth at Test level given that NONE of our pacers has a strike rate under 100 in that format. That is piss poor...Chamu Chibabha would be ashamed.

Also you can't conclude he can't bowl with an old ball because in ODIs the oldest a ball will be is 25 overs old, not old enough for reverse and not new enough to generate bounce or prodigious swing. He's done well enough in this tournament to keep his reputation intact, if not exactly enhanced.

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
I'm optimistic about him...he might not be ready for limited overs cricket just yet...he seems to get hit for sixes way too much, but seems to follow up well but getting wickets after being smacked (3x in this tourney). His ODI strike rate is good but not great. If he is a better Test bowler, than I don't mind letting him cut his teeth at Test level given that NONE of our pacers has a strike rate under 100 in that format. That is piss poor...Chamu Chibabha would be ashamed.

Also you can't conclude he can't bowl with an old ball because in ODIs the oldest a ball will be is 25 overs old, not old enough for reverse and not new enough to generate bounce or prodigious swing. He's done well enough in this tournament to keep his reputation intact, if not exactly enhanced.

good prospect but in terms of performance in the WC abu jayed and dewan sabbir did well to.

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
What has Taskin done to deserve a thread of his own? Anyways, he obviously has a LONG way to go before deserving any sort of consideration, serious or not. People morph with time, so we'll see.

Reason for his own thread:

- He is leading wicket taker of U-19 WC tournament for BD and next Abul!
- He will also a probable pace spearhead who might be the ideal solution as Mash replacement and has opportunity to become number #1 pacer of BD in 2020 (based on the way Abuls are coming and going)
- He will be superstar soon after getting drafted to A or National team and then will perform good in 1 or 2 month in near future which will be memorable for development team for that particular year
- He has opportunity to transition to acting career has he has "boody" and "height" to replace Shahadat Shahrukh Khan as number # 1 in "Cricket hero went zero then cinema hiro" criteria

SS- come on man, don't discourage him it won't help him, rather he will loose confidence. Batsmen were set to hit big in the end. Anam should have used Taskin/dewan in the middle overs somewhere. he lost the plot there. and, why on the earth we were playing so many spinners in aus pitch? all the matches i have seen in tv have green top. bd cricket pundit really needs t think about palying 3 pacers in age group cricket, no matter where they are playing - we need to encourage young generation to bowl fast. go bd go

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Stripped off Rakibul from my fav players list 8/24/2012. Cant stand who gets bowled most of the time , damn

The future of our pace bowling looks bleak, he is our U19 pace spearhead and goes unsold in BPL auction while tons of nobody players from both here and abroad gets a team. Pathetic stuff. There should be a quota in every BPL team to include national U19 team players. I rather see these guys playing then the same old Nazimuddins.

BPL is not going to benefit our cricket as long as guys like Brad Hodge come become captain, open the bowling, open the batting. This is the ideal tournament to test the mettle of our young upcoming players. Not picking Taskin shows the knowledge of the selection committee of the franchises. I guess they are more interested in entertainment, fame, rather than helping develop the game. I dont know whether BCB is planning to change any rule, but it will be good for the game if we could reduce the number of foreigners per team by 1 like its done in IPL and SLPL. Yes, foreigners make it more interesting, but it doesnt help our cricket

How on earth Taskin goes unsold? Don't get this at all. I like the idea that all u-19s should be a mandatory for all the franchises. So many unknown foreigners are included and guys like Taskin goes unsold, not accepting this.